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Why The Best Zoos In America Are The Best December 27 Alberto Moreno Camiseta , 2013 | Author: Mitchell Jones | Posted in Education

You might well imagine a precious and cynical child boldly declaring that a trip to the museum was quite as good, thank you, as one to the zoo. And, indeed, there was a time (not all that long ago) Sergio Ramos Camiseta , when the kid would have had a point. It has been common for quite a while now that museums possess considerably sized exhibits of animals, of all kinds, in comfortably climate-controlled settings, laid out for viewing in a short and easy stroll.

Of course, the animals don’t ever move – because they’re dead and stuffed. But Nacho Fernandez Camiseta , frankly, as a kid, I recall lots of zoos in which the animals moved so little they might well have been stuffed.

Thankfully, those days are by-in-large behind us. No longer is one going to confuse the museum experience with an excursion to the zoo. It’s not entirely unfair to say that the quality of a top zoo may well be defined precisely in the degree to which it provides an experience distinctive from that of the zoos of days gone by (and museums).

No longer are such zoos storage units with bars. Rather, they have become full participants in a great project to assure the cultivation and preservation of our planet’s wildlife. The very best of them are notable for their extensive facilities and clearly expressed missions to pursue the research and collaborative endeavors that enhance wildlife preservation within appropriate Kepa Arrizabalaga Camiseta , natural habitats.

Such zoos distinguish themselves through contributing to a creation of a symbiosis, in which knowledge of how best to preserve natural habitat contributes to their ability to better design a zoo experience that is suited more to the natural disposition of their own animals. As a consequence of this ongoing learning and adapting process, today’s zoo is stimulating and rewarding in entirely new and unprecedented ways.

As zoo animals have the experience of living in environments more closely fit with their evolved dispositions, their natural liveliness is invigorated. This leads to animals with energy and curiosity. Such animals are active and involved with their environment and each other.

Not only does this make for psychologically and physically healthier conditions for the animals, but it provides a more enjoyable zoo-going experience for us. The energy and vitality of animals living in a stimulating environment Luis Alberto Camiseta , sculpted to their evolutionary needs, means we get to see animals that are alive and engaged. This is exciting in itself.

And of course since the behavior of the animals is now better suited to their natural habitat, the zoo becomes an educational experience in a manner far more complex and deep than the stand-and-gawk zoos of my youth.

One of the great outcomes of this new style zoo has been the construction of far vaster ranges for the animals to live within. This improvement in the living conditions of the animals, though, has posed challenges regarding the means to allow zoo visitors to experience the animals in this new habitat Vitolo Camiseta , without undermining its initial virtues. Leaders in the zoo community addressed these challenges with various kinds of carry-through technology and process reorganization. These have included monorails, safari tours and walk through zones.

To identify the best zoos in America , or anywhere in the world, then, it all comes together into a cohesive whole. The conservationist agenda Thiago Alcantara Camiseta , the new expansive facility designs, the applications of leading technology, in the hands of the most deft zoo keepers and their support staff, have blossomed into a zoological renaissance.

Such a renaissance has had profound impacts upon the modern zoo visitor. In place of the old museum zoos we now enjoy experiences as rich in learning opportunities as in sheer exotic awe. Our new zoos inspire an experience which verges on the otherworldly. We now enjoy the remarkable opportunity for a kind of communion with other kinds of life. These other lives, certainly Jose Callejon Camiseta , are different from our own. And yet, at the same time, no doubt due to the consequence of a common evolutionary past, in some uncanny sense there remains something that strangely resonates with us.

Herein lay the real magic of the best zoos in America. They pull off this remarkable feat of somehow combining the power and lessons of contemporary science and technology while in the process allowing us to experience something of the sublime.

Mitchell Jone’s top five list of the best zoos in America is a must read when you’re organizing a family trip around a zoo holiday. Also, please enjoy our YouTube video .

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